This would be quite funny if it had not been attempted seriously in a major Gnu project already! Check out the SHAMELESS Ole Tange and his bizarre attempts to simultaneously force people to obey academic citations while at the same offering you the chance to throw the academic process in the bin for a mere 10000 EUR payment to him. I wish I was joking. GNU Nagware! It literally nags you with a warning message every t…
Does any distro keep that in their packages?
If and when I ever write an academic peer-reviewed paper that heavily relies on GNU Parallel as part of my data processing pipeline, I'd be happy to give it a two-line citation. Until that happens, the `--will-cite` flag silences the error message. So does the patch that disables the message (this is GNU after all :)